PORTSMOUTH — Where do you think the city’s next parking garage should be built?

City Councilor Ken Smith hopes residents will provide feedback to that question on Saturday at a two-hour public listening session at the Works Bakery Cafe on Congress Street. The Feb. 23 session, which takes place from 10 a.m. to noon, is being held to allow residents a comfortable place to float their ideas, Smith said.

“Not everybody is comfortable coming to City Hall and standing behind a podium,” he said.

The listening session will also provide residents a chance to have what Smith calls a “one-on-one” conversation about a future garage. As chairman of the city’s Parking and Traffic Safety Committee, Smith is leading the charge to find the best location for the city’s next parking structure. The committee was given the responsibility last year, after the City Council voted 5-4 to no longer consider the Worth lot as the site for a new garage.

Smith said he has no intention of discussing the Worth lot at the listening session. “The idea is not to rehash the Worth lot, but to listen to people’s suggestions on other places for parking garages,” he said.

Ideas brought up Saturday will be brought back to the PTS committee for further discussion at a Feb. 28 meeting. “I will be bringing all of the ideas that I hear back to the PTS committee so we can start deliberations,” he said.